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Meghan Markle stepped out with the royal family for the first time since she spectacularly trashed them in front of the world and Oprah Winfrey — and The Post’s Piers Morgan was watching closely.

The outspoken British commentator — who has long been a vocal critic of the former “Suits” star — took to Twitter to share a snarky joke about Markle’s royal return, which quickly blew up online.

Morgan compiled a series of viral photos showing young Prince Louis wincing and screaming on the Buckingham Palace balcony, before sassily tweeting: “Is this when Aunty Meghan arrived?”

The tweet quickly racked up more than 17,000 likes, with many people praising Morgan for saying what they were thinking.

“The huge reaction to my tweet perfectly summarizes public opinion to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” Morgan told The Post on Friday. “Most people laughed because they’re now global laughing stocks after all their hypocritical money-grabbing royal-bashing antics.”

However, the host of the new global TV show, “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” added: “But Meghan and Harry’s dwindling number of humorless deluded woke fans were triggered into fury, yet again, because they genuinely believe the Sussexes are the world’s biggest victims. This belief, like my tweet, is hilarious.”

🤣🤣Is this when Aunty Meghan arrived? pic.twitter.com/SxeCP3mzBT

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)

Among the peanut gallery quips on Twitter: “The whole of the UK more like!” one person wrote, claiming all Brits had the same dramatic reaction to Markle.

“They got booed going into the service. Hope that’s on Netflix,” another chimed in, referencing the frosty reception Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, received at an event at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Indeed, some did take issue with Morgan for singling out Markle during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, given his long history of criticizing the duchess.

“Of all the things that could have been posted on a day of celebration and people coming together, you choose this. Why the need for such nastiness?!” a Twitter user asked.

“I knew you couldn’t go 4 days without mentioning Meghan. But I thought you’d at least refrain the first day out of respect for the Queen,” another sniped.

Morgan and Markle were once on friendly terms, with the pair once drinking together in a British pub back in 2016.

“We spent two hours in a pub, she had a couple of dirty martinis, I had a couple of pints, we got on brilliantly,” Morgan explained back in 2018. “And then I put her in a cab, and it turned out to be a cab which took her to a party where she met Prince Harry. And the next night they had a solo dinner together, and that was the last I heard from Meghan Markle.”

“She ghosted me,” Morgan then stated. “Meghan Markle ghosted me.”

The Post columnist has since been skeptical of the star’s motives, and slammed her after she trashed the royal family in her Oprah Winfrey interview last year.

During that sensational sit-down, the actress — who is biracial — leveled accusations of racism at one unnamed member of the royal family, saying there were “concerns about how dark” her son Archie’s skin would be.

She also claimed she had suicidal thoughts while living in the UK and carrying out duties as a working member of the royal family.

Morgan subsequently scoffed at Markle’s claim that her mental health was suffering, and infamously stormed off the set of “Good Morning Britain” after a colleague criticized him for failing to believe her assertions.

Morgan refused to apologize for his remarks and was let go from the top-rated morning show. He has since bounced back with his own show, “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”

Meanwhile, Prince Louis became the bona-fide star of Thursday’s Trooping the Colour event, which kicked off Queen Elizabeth II’s four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

The 4-year-old was caught on camera making a series of exaggerated facial expressions as he joined his family on the Buckingham Palace balcony amid huge cheers from the crowd on the Mall.

The snaps — which were used by Morgan for his tweet — were beamed around the world, and inspired a series of hilarious memes.

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The outgoing rule requires a hunting scene, but it doesn’t specify that the people have to be hunting the birds. 

Last month the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it was bringing to an end one of the strangest, and some would say silliest, policies of the Trump era: Starting next year, artists will no longer be required to include hunting images in their submissions to the federal duck stamp contest.

The mandate is still in place, however, for this year’s contest, which will be held this weekend. And artists, as artists are wont to do, are seizing the opportunity to troll the powers that be. 

This year’s submissions are currently anonymous so the judges can assess them without bias. But based on a Flickr gallery of contest entries, several artists appear to be saying to the government: You want hunting scenes? We’ve got your hunting scenes right here.

Mixed in with mostly earnest and lovely renderings of waterfowl in their natural habitat, the gallery features some more subversive interpretations of the contest rules, such as a Redhead with a knowing look pointing a shotgun at a duck hunter. Other submissions include a close-up image of a shotgun blazoned across a beautiful painting of a King Eider, and—because why not?—a rendering of Vermeer’s “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” but with what looks to be a Blue-winged Teal in the girl’s place. Another artist painted a Redhead embracing a hunter and, as far as we can tell, a businessman of some sort.

You can’t miss the hunting imagery in this painting of a King Eider.

As Audubon readers well know by now, the duck stamp is not a postage stamp—though stamp collectors do prize them—but rather is a type of permit required to hunt waterfowl. The winning artwork from each year’s contest appears on the following year’s stamp. The tradition is a boon for conservation: Since 1934 duck stamp purchases have raised more than $1.1 billion to acquire some 6 million acres of waterfowl habitat at national wildlife refuges.

Hunters account for the majority of those purchases, but birders and other outdoors enthusiasts also buy duck stamps to support conservation. Past contest paintings occasionally included hunting scenes, since the stamp is, after all, a hunting license. But in 2019 the Trump administration mandated that all entries include a hunting element, and made “Celebrating our Waterfowl Hunting Heritage” the contest’s permanent theme.

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Many artists were unhappy with the change, both on a practical level—painting ducks is challenging enough, they said, without having to squeeze in a hunting scene—and because the change could alienate non-hunters, needlessly driving a wedge between camps of conservationists that share the goal of preserving wildlife populations. 

In last year’s contest, artists resorted to painting shotgun shells and other elements that looked to many observers like litter marring what should by idyllic nature scenes. The dustup drew wider attention to a contest that had previously kept a fairly low profile outside the wildlife-art world.

Now, it seems, a raft of new artists have alighted upon the contest, putting their impressive skills and irreverent humor to work skewering the pro-hunting mandate. This odd chapter in the duck stamp’s long history may be coming to a close, but their art will live on.